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Videos on GMOs and Genetic Engineering

This list of serious and funny videos about GMOs and genetic engineering includes videos on GMO dangers, Monsanto, GMO labeling, more.

See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to GMO topics.

GMO VIDEOSFUNNY

MONSANTO — PICKING UP GOD’S SLACK
This funny bit from Happy Little Guillotine Studios makes mince meat out of Monsanto's maniacal drive to dominate the global food system with their GMO products, no matter what the cost. Watch funny Monsanto video.
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OLD MAN SANTO HAD A FARM
This funny video about Monsanto, the worst actor in the evilopoly of giant GMO purveyors, serenades us about the problems with genetically modified crops, especially corn and soy. Watch funny Monsanto video.
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HETEROGENIC – SUPER CORN — In this highly polished animation, genetic engineering and radiation turn an ordinary kernel of corn into something more—much more. You may also perceive the unspoken message about how easily genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can escape confinement via accidental means. From Art5, via YouTube.
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GENETIC SCIENTISTS DEVELOP SHEEP WITH BRAIN OF A GOAT
We won't give away the gag in this video short, but suffice it to say that it's true that the benefit to society of genetic engineering — especially in food animals and plants — is marginal at best, very baaaaad at worst. Eye-watering stuff from The Onion. Watch funny genetic engineering video.

DISNEY’S GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CHILD STARS
A subtle but humorous video satire about how Disney is so successful at developing new talent. Watch disney satire.

GMO VIDEOSSERIOUS

MONSANTO OR MONSATANO?
The documentary Bad Seed—The Truth About Our Food explains the dangers of genetically modified food and the dirty tactics used by GMO corporations and their government henchmen to keep their products on the shelves (and out of the news). If you weren't convinced GM crops were bad before, you will be after this. Watch video on genetically modified food.
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Genetically Modified Chestnuts —
A century ago, the American Chestnut was a tremendously important species in the forests of Eastern North America, representing more than a quarter of all forest trees in a swath from Georgia to Ontario. But a fungus introduced on imported Asian chestnut trees turned out to be catastrophic for the American Chestnut, killing billions of trees and essentially wiping out the species by the 1950s. Breeding a blight-resistant tree has proved laborious and difficult, so now a research team has developed a genetically modified American Chestnut that uses a gene from wheat to resist the effects of the fungus. Lead researcher William Powell explains.Go to page |
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GP comment: As GMO applications go, this would seem to be one of the less objectionable ones. But beware anytime a GMO proponent says "this is for the people and for the environment." And Powell's additional assertion that GM technology is more targeted and sensible than standard hybridization is completely specious.

Original Show Pub Date: 22.Nov.2014

CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT (GMOs) — 16.OCT.2014

Food Sleuth Radio

Failed Promises and Real Risks of GMO Crops —
Raymon Seidler is a former senior scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. Decades ago, he led the first team to study the environmental and health impacts of newly introduced GMO crops. He explains how we have ignored risks in favor of broad market penetration; in particular, plans for containing the unintended contamination of organic and non-GMO crops with GMO genetic material have been utterly inadequate. Pesticide use has also risen, not fallen as the industry promised.Go to page |
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Together, We Can Protect Our Food, Our Farms, and Our Environment —
Colin O'Neil and Larissa Walker of the Center for Food Safety talk about a variety of food and farm issues. Topics include the new 2,4-D-resistant GMO crops; toxic pesticides associated with cancers and birth defects; importance of honey bees to large-scale agriculture; effects of chemicals on honey bees, native bees, and other critical beneficial insects; neonicotinoid pesticides as a particular problem for bees.Go to page |
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